Author: Elina Puhakka

Elina Puhakka

Now that I have been in Finland over one month, I started to think about the things I have experienced. I felt so happy when I finally arrived to Joensuu. I invited one of my exchange friends, Serena, to my parents house when she wanted to visit Finland. The week with her was kind of…

They say that time flies and it is true… If I look back to the end of February, when I arrived here what do I see? HOUSING I was super afraid when I arrived to Karlsruhe, I had NO IDEA about my future housing. Everybody kept saying that ” you can speak German, you will find…

After a day in Nice, we traveled to Marseille. Once again, by bus. Marseille is a city of 850 000 inhabitants. Marseille locates by the Mediterranean sea. I think that Nice was much more prettier but I really liked Marseille as well. We bought tickets to hop-on-hop-off bus and visited quite a lot tourist attractions….

One of my dreams came true, when we traveled to France (and Monaco as well). We booked a trip by student trips agency to Monte Carlo, Nice, Marseille, and Lyon. We started our trip from Stuttgart at 10 pm, and traveled trought the night in the bus. When I woke up at 7 am, we were…

Thanks to technical problems, I wasn´t able to write any posts earlier. My time here flies too fast. Only 1,5 months and I will go back to Finland. Crazy. During the last month, I have met friends, done sports, wandered around the city, got stress about the assignments, and traveled a lot. So here I…

It is Easter holiday here, and I am so happy to finally be able to relax. On Saturday we visited Ettlingen and Baden Baden. Both nice places,but Baden Baden was really a place to see. It really was a pretty place. We were even able to visit Baden Baden with our Public Transport Studiticket. But…

After we survived Heidelberg, it was time for our next destination. Frankfurt. Heidelbergin jälkeen vuorossa oli seuraava kohde, eli Frankfurt. Frankfurt is big city for a countryside girl like me 😀 We bought tickets to Maintower where we were able to see the city from the top. After that we walked around the city found…

Hey again! Radio silence is now over, I can post again. So much has happened in past few weeks. I moved to a new flat, I have been studying, talking German, making friends, doing sports and TRAVELING! Last week I felt lonely, sad and just wanted to pack my things and go home. But I…

Hey all! My feelings are quite different than two weeks ago 😀 I have lived in Germany almost one week and yesterday I finally got my own room from student dormitory. It is actually not so modern, but it is bearable enough to live next 29 days. Then I have to look for a new…

I can`t believe it. Only 1,5 weeks to go and then my adventure in Karlsruhe will begin. I guess that I thought that preparing this trip would be much easier, but I was wrong. I have never been more stressed. There has been big arrangements like moving out from my old flat, applying for money…